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Four essays on inductive logic
Sentential Logic Primer
Undergraduate
concentration in Psychology at Princeton
Recent papers (PDF format):
Self and other mindreading:
Inferring preferences from unsuspecting faces
Updating: Learning versus supposing
Notes on random reals
Remarks on “Random Sequences”
Modal logic for preference based on reasons
Learning stimulus relationships increases control
in the flanker task
Logic, Language and the Brain
Improving Aggregated Forecasts of Probability
Detecting deviations from randomness
Thought beyond language: neural dissociation of
algebra and natural language
Wishful Thinking in
the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
An fMRI study of
conceptual combination
Inferring the social preferences of others from
spontaneous, non-emotional facial expressions
Aggregating Large
Sets of Probabilistic Forecasts by Weighted Coherent Adjustment
Preference based on reasons
Descriptive assessment of
Jeffrey’s Rule
The neural basis of
conceptual combination
Second order probability affects hypothesis
confirmation
Detecting deception by loading working memory
On the provenance of judgments of conditional
probability
Inductive inference based on probability and similarity
From similarity to inference
Independent Neural Representation of Logical Versus
Linguistic Inference
Similarity and Induction
A Partially
Truth Functional Approach to Indicative Conditionals
Probabilistic coherence and proper scoring rules
Methods for distance-based judgment
aggregation
Formal Learning
Theory in Context
Functional
Neuroanatomy of Deductive Inference
Recognizing
strong random reals
False consensus bias in contract interpretation
Music perception
among schizophrenia patients (abstract)
Predicting
judged similarity of mammals from their neural representations
Confirmation may
depend on more than probability
Aggregating Forecasts of Chance
from Incoherent and Abstaining Experts
Scalable Algorithms for
Aggregating Disparate Forecasts of Probability
Elementary proof of a theorem of Jean Ville
Note on an observation by Neil
Tennant
Adding Dense, Weighted
Connections to WordNet
On Typicality and Vagueness
Real Estate Values and Air
Pollution: Measured Levels and Subjective Expectation
Comparison of confirmation
measures
Learning to coordinate: A
recursion theoretic perspective
From Similarity to Chance
Induction as conditional probability
judgment
Order Dependence and Jeffrey
Conditionalization
Evidential Diversity and Premise
Probability in Young Children's Inductive Judgment
On the Reality of the
Conjunction Fallacy
A Different Conjunction Fallacy
Conjunction and the Conjunction
Fallacy
Aggregating Disparate Estimates
of Chance
A note on concave utility
functions
New Evidence for Distinct Right
and Left Brain Systems for Deductive versus Probabilistic Reasoning
Notes on Statistical Tests
No method of
ampliative inference respects conditionalization
Scientific
Discovery from the Perspective of Hypothesis Acceptance
A Note on
Superadditive Probability Judgment
Wisdom and Aging
The Relation Between
Probability and Evidence Judgment: An Extension of Support Theory
On the
Psychology of Vague Predicates
Category Based
Induction
Computer Output
New axioms for the Contrast Model of similarity